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    <p class="p">This demonstration provides a proof-of-concept implementation of the DITA bookmap proposal. The proposal adds book output to DITA using a specialized DITA map known as a bookmap. The bookmap organizes the DITA topics with the correct nesting and sequence for the book. In addition, the bookmap assigns roles such as preface, chapter, and appendix to top-level topics within the book. </p>

    <p class="p">For more detailed information about the proposal, see the detailed posting on the DITA forum at <a class="xref" href="news://news.software.ibm.com:119/c11fd3$85qq$2@news.boulder.ibm.com" target="_blank">news://news.software.ibm.com:119/c11fd3$85qq$2@news.boulder.ibm.com</a>.</p>

    <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> This demonstration has the following limitations:<ul class="ul">
        <li class="li">For XSL-FO formatting and thus PDF generation, only the basics have been implemented. Through specialization, the DITA XHTML-based outputs for DITA map are also available for bookmap.</li>

        <li class="li">The design for the book info component of the proposal has been fleshed out based on antecedents in DocBook and IBMIDDoc (see the comments in the <code class="ph codeph">bookinfo.mod</code> file). Most of the elements in bookinfo aren't processed.</li>

        <li class="li">The book list component of the proposal hasn't been implemented yet. Possible designs for a glossary list have been discussed extensively on the DITA forum (resulting in the proposal posted as <a class="xref" href="news://news.software.ibm.com:119/3FA29F54.83AFB251@ca.ibm.com" target="_blank">news://news.software.ibm.com:119/blfg38$5k0q$1@news.boulder.ibm.com</a>).</li>

        <li class="li">The book style component of the proposal is much more experimental than the bookmap and bookinfo components. Processing for this component is limited.</li>

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